We partner with some of the most innovative and inspiring organisations both in the UK and internationally to support our aims. See below for the positive impact we are making and the achievements of those organisations.
Ultra Education C.I.C is a Community Interest Company focusing on breaking down barriers for young entrepreneurs from disadvantaged communities. The project supported by the CISI Future Foundation will fund the delivery of a 12 week financial literacy programme to empower and educate 60 children, aged 8-14, across three different schools in the London boroughs of Brent, Barnet, and Harrow utilising interactive activities and immersive experiences with financial institutions.
Just Finance Foundation is a national charity dedicated to empowering the next generation with the essential financial education they need to thrive as adults. Created by teachers for teachers, their flagship programme LifeSavers provides high-quality CPD training, ever-expanding innovative resources, and support to education professionals to embed money lessons across the whole curriculum from PSHE to maths to drama. The CISI Future Foundation grant will support 40 new LifeSavers schools, as well as 100 existing LifeSaver schools all across the UK including in Scotland, Wales, Yorkshire, the North East and North West, East and West Midlands and the South West to access brand new specialist resources, developed in collaboration with Alternative Provision and SEMH settings, to specifically to meet the needs of children experiencing social, emotional and behavioural challenges.
The CISI Future Foundation has provided a multi-year grant to RedSTART Educate to help fund the delivery of their financial education initiatives. RedSTART Educate offers progressive learning workshops to disadvantaged primary school children aged 4–11 throughout the UK. Its Change the Game programme, delivered by volunteers through workshops in schools and complemented by a Money Management App, provides each student with around ten hours of financial education per academic year. The goal is to help children improve their financial and maths skills, confidence, employability prospects and life chances. Furthermore, this funding will also contribute towards a longitudinal study conducted in partnership with the Policy Institute at Kings College London to evaluate the impact of this programme. The study will assess the children’s financial knowledge progress yearly throughout their primary schooling, with the aim to provide actionable evidence to policymakers to address the discrepancies in financial literacy in the UK.
The CISI Future Foundation has provided funding to run Get Set Girls' Empowered and Enriched programme, which will teach practical financial skills to 90 girls aged between 6 and 19 from low-income families and minority ethnic groups in the London boroughs of Hackney and Haringey. The programme will empower them to manage their finances responsibly and confidently, helping to prepare them for adulthood by learning about budgeting, debt prevention and investment. They will also benefit from seven hours of mentoring per week and participate in monthly workshops focusing on putting theory into practice through fun methods such as group work, displays, skits, reports and speeches.
With the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, financially disadvantaged people face increasingly challenging circumstances, resulting in a growing demand for adult financial education. This partnership therefore marks the CISI Future Foundation’s initial effort to support adults in developing financial literacy skills. The Foundation’s funding will help support over 1,000 individuals each year, through the delivery of over 100 in-person and virtual workshops across London, Swindon and West Kent, offering insights into the impact of finance and mental health, practical steps to save money, budget coaching over six months and training to equip others to deliver money and budgeting skills support.
The CISI Future Foundation funding has been allocated to the expansion of National Numeracy’s Parental Engagement Programme. Working in partnership with a cluster of primary schools serving disadvantaged communities, this programme helps parents and carers to become actively involved and engaged in their children’s experience of numeracy, as we know this has a significant and positive impact on their learning.
The CISI Future Foundation has allocated funding to support 5 schools spread across the UK to become accredited as Centres of Excellence. The Centres of Excellence programme recognises and rewards schools that are committing to excellence in financial education within their own setting and beyond. With guidance from a financial education consultant, schools work towards Young Enterprise’s Young Money improvement framework – a set of national professional standards they need to meet. This involves creating engaging and inspiring learning programmes, alongside staff development and training. Young people are at the heart of the programme. The goal is that they leave school with the knowledge, skills and confidence to be able to make informed and independent financial decisions.
The CISI Future Foundation is dedicated to providing funding to Number Champions which will enable them to expand their services. Number Champions supports children in state primary schools across London in Years 2 and 3 (ages six to eight) who are behind in maths, by providing one-to-one sessions with trained volunteers, to help children acquire confidence, enjoyment, and skills in numeracy.
Open Palm’s mission is to empower young people to succeed regardless of their racial or social background by delivering educational life-skills programmes, improving learning environments and addressing racial inequality. The CISI Future Foundation is helping to fund the expansion of their WYZ Money Course, which teaches 13-17-year olds how to be wiser with money. The course content includes information about how money works within our economy, in combination with practical skills for their toolkit in order to make good decisions when handling money and, most importantly, to develop a positive money mindset!
The CISI Future Foundation is funding the delivery 80 Young People Money Workshops in schools across the UK for young people aged 11-16. Through these workshops, young people, particularly those who are disadvantaged, will develop confidence, knowledge and skills around managing their money, how to save, plan and budget, financial support services and maintaining financial resilience. Ultimately, these workshops will improve their financial literacy and capability, reducing the risk of experiencing financial difficulties and improving their ability to cope if they do.
The funding from the CISI Future Foundation will allow MyBnk to deliver an estimated 70 of each The Money House and Money Works sessions in the UK, and 10 pilot Money Works programmes in Northern Ireland, reaching a total of 1,200 young people approximately. The Money House helps young people in, or about to move into, independent housing manage their money and maintain their tenancy. Participants gain practical, financial and digital skills to help them pay their rent on time, keep up with bills and budget their living costs. They are taught how to make informed choices about their future and teach them how to best manage their money, to prevent homelessness. Money Works is a financial and digital skills programme for young adults moving into independent living to confront their money worries. Combining digital literacy with money management is a powerful and liberating prospect for those who find themselves waiting on payday or punished by late fees.
The CISI Future Foundation has provided funding to support FT FLIC’s Social Media and Video Officer for one year, to work with a team of social media influencers and financial experts at the Financial Times, to create and produce a total of 35 videos to form discrete pieces of financial literacy learning. These videos will exploit the ever growing popularity of social media as a means to meet target groups of young people, where they consume content and will amplify the voices of social media influencers who, research shows, are trusted sources of information. The 35 videos will provide the very building blocks to enable young people to manage their money and achieve financial security and wellbeing.
The CISI Future Foundation has provided funding to support Junior Achievement Ireland’s ‘Balancing Act’ programme. This is an in-classroom practical financial literacy workshop for secondary schools (ages 15 -17 years old) in Ireland, delivered by business volunteers, which will allow students and teachers to engage with industry experts. The funding will support the expansion of this programme where students will learn to recognise the fundamental elements of smart personal finances and how to apply those elements to meet their lifelong financial needs and desired quality of life.